Micro Focus Contracts

Micro Focus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Micro Focus products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Micro Focus over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Micro Focus.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 663 776
Rank change year-on-year +127 +113 -122
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 51 43 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.075% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 33
10th Percentile - £285 £213
25th Percentile - £411 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £80 £483 £521
Median % change year-on-year -83.44% -7.20% +5.15%
75th Percentile £375 £547 £575
90th Percentile £424 £582 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £80 £491 £425
% change year-on-year -83.70% +15.49% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 3
10th Percentile £72.50 - £46.20
25th Percentile - £37.80 £53.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.09% -38.50% -
75th Percentile - £43.39 £74.38
90th Percentile - - £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £61.50
% change year-on-year +97.09% -34.00% -

All Vendors
UK

Micro Focus is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

Micro Focus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Micro Focus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Daily rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Micro Focus over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Hourly rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Micro Focus within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +125 47 £80 -83.26% 8
UK excluding London +81 38 £80 -83.70% 8
South West +25 20 £80 -87.10%
East of England - 16 £80 -
Work from Home +108 7 £481 +2.39% 7
London +78 7 £413 +3.13%
North West +22 1 - - 2
South East +17 1 £400 -28.89% 2
North of England +17 1 - - 5

Micro Focus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.88%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) AWS
2 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 10 (19.61%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.84%) Aviation
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Electronics
4 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Military
4 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Billing
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (72.55%) Data Engineer
1 37 (72.55%) Data Migration Engineer
1 37 (72.55%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (11.76%) Lead
3 3 (5.88%) COBOL Developer
3 3 (5.88%) Developer
4 2 (3.92%) Analyst
4 2 (3.92%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (3.92%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (3.92%) COBOL Analyst
4 2 (3.92%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
4 2 (3.92%) COBOL Programmer
4 2 (3.92%) Consultant
4 2 (3.92%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (3.92%) Programmer
4 2 (3.92%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (1.96%) Novell Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (1.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Web Services
2 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.88%) jQuery
2 3 (5.88%) Kafka
2 3 (5.88%) RESTful
2 3 (5.88%) SOAP
2 3 (5.88%) Spring
2 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.88%) Struts
2 3 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (1.96%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Data Migration
1 37 (72.55%) Migration
2 25 (49.02%) DevSecOps
3 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
3 4 (7.84%) Unit Testing
4 3 (5.88%) Agile
4 3 (5.88%) Batch Processing
4 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (5.88%) Data Security
4 3 (5.88%) Database Migration
4 3 (5.88%) DevOps
4 3 (5.88%) SDLC
4 3 (5.88%) Software Testing
4 3 (5.88%) Test Automation
5 2 (3.92%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (3.92%) Programme Management
5 2 (3.92%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection
6 1 (1.96%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.88%) COBOL
1 3 (5.88%) Java
1 3 (5.88%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) GDPR
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) CA Service Virtualization
2 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) CA
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle
2 4 (7.84%) Twitter
3 3 (5.88%) IBM
3 3 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) OpenText
5 1 (1.96%) HP
5 1 (1.96%) Isilon
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Novell